Burgess, Nathan B

Burgess, Nathan B.

a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born Sept. 14,1771, at Woodbury, Conn. He received his education in the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire; was ordained deacon in 1801, and took priest's orders in the following year. Among his parishes were Guilford, Glastenbury, and Poquetannock. In 1835 he removed to the diocese of Western New York, where he served several parishes. He died Feb. 20, 1854, at Utica, N. Y. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1854, p. 458.